【英文文学】Concerning Genealogies
28页1、【英文文学】Concerning GenealogiesPREFACEThis little book puts the pleasure of tracing ones ancestry within reach of those who have had no previous practice. It covers every phase of the subjectthe sources of information, the methods of research, the compiling, the printing, and the publishing of a genealogy.Strong emphasis is laid upon the importance of employing the historical method, without which no genealogical work can become authoritative. If we may judge from most of the family histories in pr
2、int, a vigorous protest against pernicious methods should be lodged with professional genealogists as well as with amateurs.Special attention is also called to the radically different plans for genealogical works, one tracing the many descendants of a common ancestor, the other tracing the many ancestors of a common descendant. There is a general drift toward the latter, many having discovered the fascination of exploring their direct lines of descent who would not care to trace the collateral b
3、ranches of a family tribe. But a detailed plan of work devoted to the exhibit of the many lines of ones own ancestry is here formulatedPg 6 for the first time. This Grafton Plan, as we have called it,already carried into execution, and approved by experience,will appeal to thousands for whom tribal genealogies have little interest.Our little volume also offers something more than a mere theory of how to proceed in genealogical work. It tells of labor-saving notebooks devised for each kind of gen
4、ealogy, and explains ways in which our own genealogical department is placed at the service of the reader.Frank Allaben.I ANCESTRY HUNTINGEveryone has leisure moments which are apt to hang heavy upon ones hands unless employed in some sort of recreation. One turns to golf and outdoors, another goes forth with gun or rod, a third arms himself with a camera. Many dabble a little in science. Some take to the telescope and star-gazing, while the microscope claims others, who haunt scummy ponds with
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